DAVID HIROSHI JAGER
Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in…
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Georg Baselitz, Whose Stock in Trade Is Raw Energy and Subversion, Has Mortality on His Mind
His work has necessarily been replete with unpleasantness, with all the harsh ironies and absurdities of collective folly.
Michiko Itatani’s Celestial Interiors, Replete With Earthly and Otherworldly Wonder
In the artist’s solo New York debut at a new Tribeca art gallery, Storage, her paintings don’t tell stories so much as evoke dream worlds where stories can happen.
Painter Tracey Emin, Who Survived a Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Excavates the Intertwining of Love and Death in ‘Lover’s Grave’
Her work has always been about this precarious balance between the physical and the metaphysical, of raw carnal intent colliding head-on with life’s fleetingness and fragility.
For Those Too Bleary-Eyed To Notice, a Loving Tribute to Lower Manhattan’s Watering Holes at Dawn
During early-morning walks in Manhattan, Daniel Root was struck by the theatrical way bars kept their spaces illuminated, like empty sets taking a pause between performances.
Hillary Harkness, Reimagining Civil War Paintings, Revels in Uncomfortable Contradictions
She tweaks history with witty and often disturbing panache.
A Long-Overdue Survey of the Work of the Notoriously Restless Sculptor, Not Vital, Parses a Body of Work That Resists Easy Classification
He seems to have been born to trot the globe and create spatial experiences of wonder.
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